Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
THOMAS HARDYYou concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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You have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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All romances end at marriage.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
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The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
THOMAS HARDY